Garment-hook.



' No. 795,604. PATENTED JULY 25, 19,05.

c. H. GAsKINs & W. H. KBISBR.

GARMBNT HOOK. APrLmATIoN FILED ooT. e, 1904.

- UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE. CLAUDE H. GASKINS AND WILLIAM H. KEISER,OF SHAMOKIN, PENNSYLVANIA. p

GARMENT-HOOK.

United States, residing at Shamokin, in the,

county of Northumberland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented newand useful Improvements in Garment-Hooks, of'which the following is aspecification.

Our invention relates to improvements in that class of devices termedhooks and eyes It has for itsObject, among other things, to provide forthe ready and effective retention of the hook or movable member in itsengagement with the eye or stationary member, to offset or counteractthe tendency of the overhanging portion or bill of the hook finallybecoming ineective as against the release or disengagement of the eyemember, to provide for the additional retention of the hook member inits effective position by restricting the play or movement thereof whenin such position, and to effect the foregoing in a simple andinexpensive way.

Said invention consists in certain detailed structural featuressubstantially as hereinafter fully disclosed, and particularly pointedout by the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the preferred embodiment ofour invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view thereof, with the parts ormembers connected together. Fig. 2 is a like view of the members orparts disconnected and relatively disposed. Fig. 3 is a side view of theparts or members as assembled in Fig. l. Fig. 4 is a cross or transversesection produced just forward of the intermediately-coiled portions orsprings of the hook member looking rearward or toward said coiledportions or springs. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the hook memberdisconnected from the eye member.

In the carrying out of our invention we employ, in connection with theordinary form of eye member l, a hook member 2, adapted to coact withthe former as when in practical use. Said hook member is formedgenerally of a wire, with that portion constituting the body or baseportion 2L doubled upon itself, with the rear or inner end terminalsthereof in the form of loops 2b to receive the fastening mediumconnecting the same to the apparel or other article to which it may bedesired to attach said hook member. In continuation the meeting orthus-brought- Specicaton of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 6, 1904. Serial No. 227,493.

Patented July 25, 1905.

together portions or wires are formed into coils or spring-guards 2C,said wires being extended from the base forward and upward, producing abend, and then extended reversely a suitable distance, thus constitutingthe bill 2d. lt will be noted, however, that in forming the springs 20the wire 2ab thereof is initially carried or inclined above the base andtoward and close to the forward bend v and close to the bill, forming anupraised surface or elevation 2e for reducing or contracting thedistance therebetween and the bill 2d and guarding the eye member wheninterlocked with the hook member for the eiective retention of said eyemember in locked position. lt will be further noted that the wireportions or branches forming the coiled springs 2C are inclined rearwardand downward reversely to their initial inclinationi. e., that of theirupraised surface or guard Qe-thus constituting, in addition to saidsprings, lateral overhanging shoulders, said shoulders being opposed tothe inner surface of the bend of the hook member. Thus it will beobserved that in effecting engagement between the eye member and thehook member it will become necessary to exert a certain amount of forceupon the hook member to effect its passage past said elevation orupraised portion 2e in order to effectively connect said eye and hookmembers together, thus effecting the interlocking of the same. Also itis observed that as the eye member l is forced into contact with andpast said upraised surface or elevation 2e the coils or springs20,-together with said elevation, will readily relax orbe depressedunder vthe thus-exerted pressure and that after said eye member haspassed said elevation said springs will automatically, by reason oftheir resiliency, resume their normal position and accordingly providefor the effective retention of the eye member within the hook member. Itis also particularly noted that by reason fof the greater yielding orresilient character or action of the springs or coils 2, having theirforward edges upraised from the base of the hook, they and not the bill2d of the hook member will principally yield or flex, as the eye member,as above stated, is engaged therewith in effecting its introduction intothe hook member. This being the case, the bill of the hook will notbecome abnormally bent or deflected outward, as

would otherwise result should the bill be conl stantly sprung outward7as would be necessary to effect the connecting together of said eyemember and hook member, as is apparent. Also it is further noted thatthe upraised surface or guard 2e andthe coils or springs 2C having theirabrupt edges or surfaces presented toward or within the plane of thelooped portion of the hook member as opposed to its nose portion orentrance form stops or shoulders, a's at 2f, to limit or restrict theplay of the eye member within the hook membeig, and thus further lessenthe possi bility of the accidental separation of said members. Again, itwill be observed that any tendency of the bill or overhanging portion 2dto become finally bent or deflected upward from its normal orright-lined position by the often inserting andgwithdrawal of the hookmember 2 will be counteracted or neutralized by the recoil action of thecoiled springs 2, above noted.

Latitude is allowed as to details herein, as

they may be changed as circumstances suggest without departing from thespirit of our invention.

We claim- The hook member of a hook-and-eye fastening formed of a singlepiece of wire and having securing-eyes at one end thereof, and bent toform a bill at the other end thereof, the base of the hook having coilstherein at a point adjacent the bend and said coils formingspring-guards inclined toward the bill of the hook and toward the bendthereof and. with the forward ends thereof raised above the base of thehook into proximity to said bil ln testimony whereof we affix oursignatures in presence of two subscribing wit- IIQSSSS.

CLAUDE H. GASKINS. WILLIAM H. KEISER. Witnesses:

AUGUST PETERSON, L. L. BURKET.

